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Dr. Margaret Samu, adjunct assistant professor of art history at Stern College, has been invited to participate in a three-week National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Institute, “America’s Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees: Twentieth Century Migration and Memory,” at Columbia University…

Peninnah Schram, professor of speech and drama at Stern College for Women, will be a featured performer at the 2013 Days of Jewish Culture Festival in Berlin, Germany. With collaborator Gerard Edery, a singer and guitarist she has performed with for more than 20 years, Schram will present an ...

Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, has won the 2013 Goren-Goldstein book award from the Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University for his recent publication The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz (Wayne State…

Dr. Abraham Ravid, Sy Syms Professor of Finance at YU's Sy Syms School of Business, participated in a HuffPost Live panel discussion about the profitability of summer movies. Other guests included Michael Hogan, executive editor of arts and entertainment at HuffPost; Bryan Unkeless, co-producer of…

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct associate professor at Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, recently led a t wo-part Remembrance and Renewal workshop for children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors at the Boro Park Y. Called "Surviving and Thriving," the event was hosted by ...

Dr. Sonia Suchday, associate professor at Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, has been selected to participate in the Academic/Academic Medicine track of the 2013 American Psychological Association (APA) Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (LIWP). The program is ...

A review by Dr. Steven Fine, professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University and director of its Center for Israel Studies, has been published on www.bookreviews.org. Drawing on his expertise in the study of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, Fine provides a nuanced review of Rabbis as Romans: The…

A course taught by Dr. Haim Kedar-Levy, visiting professor at Yeshiva University's Sy Syms School of Business, is being broadcast on Galei Zahal, a radio station operated by the Israeli Defense Force. The course, "Financial Crises in the Past Century," aims to explain what constitutes a financial…

Robert M. Tufts, an adjunct instructor at Yeshiva University, will participate in a panel discussion of Israel, America and baseball at the 92nd Street Y on May 13 at 8:15 pm. One of only six major league players to convert to Judaism during his career, Tufts will be joined by Jeffrey Lyons and ...

In celebration of his 80th birthday, Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein, the Rabbi Henoch Sarah D. Berman Chair in Talmud at Yeshiva University and a rosh yeshiva at YU’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, was honored at the Etzion Foundation’s Annual Dinner on March 10 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel…